Creations by Elissa Baltzer

Urban Sketching

The Garden

An art journal style page (inspired by a Facebook group dedicated to doing this kind of observational journalling work. I spent one of the last mornings there was full bloom on the magnolia this Spring and did this observed Montage of what was happening in the garden that morning. After having chatted with my sister, who is a biologist, I now better understand that the ants were eating a kind of wax off of the Peonies and that with out them the peonies wouldn't be able to bloom. And know more about the red beetles and the fact that they will actually consume the lilly plant they are on as the season passes.